Hard landscaping products, including decorative aggregates from Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates complement the return to the 2022 Chelsea Flower Show of the container gardens introduced last year.
Welsh Slate and Breedon Special Aggregates, part of the Breedon Group, feature
on five new container gardens conceived by budding landscape designers
mentored by award-winning landscape designer Paul Hervey-Brookes who is
himself using a plethora of products for the Brewin Dolphin garden that
he has designed for this year's show.
Brewin Dolphin's garden this
year has been designed to showcase how a former 1900s industrial brownfield
site can be transformed with the tenets of sustainability at its heart. With
thousands of new homes set to be built on brownfield sites over the coming
years, it reflects the challenge of inheriting poor soil conditions that many
British homeowners will face.
As well as Welsh Slate paving
made from reclaimed slate, a range of repurposed materials will be used,
including recycled aggregates, reclaimed and sustainably sourced bricks, and
pre-treated straw walls. A pool, edged in Welsh Slate, will collect and
alleviate the risk of flooding from high volume rainfall events which are
increasingly common with the effects of climate change.
Paul is using a range of Welsh
Slate's Penrhyn Heather hard landscaping products, including fencing, glacial
boulders, slate edging, paving slabs with natural edges and slabs as well as
recycled asphalt and concrete, and fine aggregate.
Breedon Special Aggregates'
Breedon Golden Amber gravel, which is the only self-binding gravel to hold a
Royal warrant, is being used for a hard-wearing yet natural walkway to the
balcony and container gardens.
For the container gardens
themselves, Welsh Slate riven paving features on the "Mandala, meditation
and mindfulness garden" designed by Nicki Hollier and the "Enchanted
rain garden" designed by Bea Tann. The former is inspired by conditions
imposed by the pandemic, offering a safe haven to spend time sitting and meditating,
listening to tranquil water - a calm and restful but rejuvenating space.
The latter is inspired by a rainy garden in Manchester, and is designed to
thrive in wet conditions, influenced by UK forests.
Highland Blend chippings
feature on "The still garden" designed by Jane Porter. It is inspired
by Scotland and the plants that thrive across the Highlands and Islands. They
reference native species and the climate to evoke an atmosphere that is
immersive, secluded and still.
Breedon Special Aggregates'
10mm Breedon Buff natural chippings will be used on the "Wild kitchen
garden" by Ann Treneman and "A Mediterranean reflection" garden
by Tanya K Wilson and Johanna Norlin.
The "Wild kitchen
garden" brings wild edible plants and trees into a small urban setting
with planting that is informal colourful, airy, natural - and tasty too. It
would work perfectly in the back garden of a city terrace, while "A
Mediterranean reflection" is inspired by the Mallorcan landscape,
utilising the colours and stone textures of the Mediterranean through artisan
elements.
All Welsh Slate landscaping
products are available from www.welshslate.com and Breedon's acclaimed Breedon Golden
Amber and decorative aggregates can be purchased directly from www.breedon-special-aggregates.co.uk.
